Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-23
MITCHELL COUNTY.
Result OF the Mitchell County GeOlog'
fcRI Survey-COal, salt and Lime
stone in Immense Quantities,
Plentiful RainE-stock and ELL tho Cro91s
Doing WelI-0E tho Eve OK
& Big Eoom.
COLORADO. Tex.

NOL'R28H. Ia. u al'1-str - y y
TIE the Editor OF the Gazette.
OR city of Colorado egd coIntS g1
Mitchell are on TIE era Of 8 solld bo9a9 Of
prosperity and progress. PCofesssas c
Brcadhead Of Missouri has Just Com
pleted 8 geological survey OF our county.
Ee assures Us that The true c0ai meas
Ure underl,es our county, End 81 depth
Il GOO feet we will reG1h d vein Of su-
1eri0r bitUninOus coal that our city anG
suburbs are undertake with an immense
bed - sat, equal &c thai now being SO
successfully and probably worked BY the
Lone Star Salt WORKS on the hill. near
the city limits, nd IS Of Immense
value: that we have an immense
formation OF solid hard lime
stone suitable and most valuable fCr
building purposes, now greatly needed by
our contractors and railroad builders;
that we have an immense formation OF
white sand, equal TO that now used atIhe
CRYSTAL Plate Glass works in Missouri:
that we have an immense formation Ct
red yellow, pink end shaie clays, suited
and most valuable for making fine brick,
tile, sewer gUtterlng and pottery; that
we have an immense mCunJsin Of solid
COnglOmcra,e silica, cemented flint pebble
stone as hard Is granite AID capable OF
o 5ag sawed cut in blocks and polished
slabs representing mosaic and marble;
thst We have an ineXhaustl-
ole supply OF most delicious
water. easy OF access; that We
have rich and fertile soil especially
sdspled 10 ali kinds Of agricultural pur-
poses; that cur averaged annual rainfall
is sufficient for all demands of producing
all farm products, when the soils are
properly prepared and intelligently cult
vated. Our stone quarry, sand and clay
beds are on the Iine OF the survey Of The
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad
made in 1885 from B3linger TO Colorado,
and we now have every reason to believe
thst road will commence its construction
toward cur city in a short time. We also
nope IN the near future to have the San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass Railroad TO
come from San Angelo through our
city. We have had numerous
good soaking rains since April, and the
grass and water supply in Mitchell county
are splendid, ard range stock are doing
well ana fast getting fat. Many expert
mental farmers and Tanchmen in our
county have this year planted farm pro-
and all tha crops are dOias well and will
produce ahundantly. The peach, apricot
and plum trees and grapevines are full Of
fruit, and will mature and produce
abunda0tly OF large luscious peaches,
spTicUtF, p.ums ana grapes. Oar wool
CLIO this season has been unusually
large and of excellent quality, and
up 10 now reaches over :, O0U, 600 pounds,
leaving Us second only TO San Antoine
rs & wool market, and prices have ranged
from IS to - cents per pound. Many
large sales Of cattle and some OF horses
are neing mace daily ct TemuCera,ive
prices to the ralslTs; so altogether cur
people are IA coed shape, ard anticipate
prosperous ana money makilS times IL
The near future Capitalists from the !
trade ceuters are on their Wav to our
city, and VIII from syrdicgtes buy end |
sell property, and invest money IL our |
numerous enterprises offered. Weekly, !
pioneer land handlers and COlOny-lGCaters 1
from Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa are /
among Us buying up solid bodies OF our |
rich, fertile agricultural lands for .
the purpose Of settling them (
up win well TODD stock raising farmers .
from th3 states mentioned These mtn /
are pioneer land Judges end handlers,
ard ssy cur Northwest Texas lands ar
far superior to thoE~ IF Missouri, Hi
uoiS. Kansas and Nebraska. and predict
that en-" whole Northwest Texas country
VIII ba S9H1ly settled up IN FIVE yeeys
with citizens OF the states mentioned.
Now, what We in Colorado and North
west Texas want Is more railroads, more
men with capital, and more educated. eN-
perieDCed raising farmers to Occupy l.
our thousands Of scres OF riCb, fertile,
cheap lands. Fort Worth is our trade
Ceuter, and TEE GAZETTE our Newspaper
w swesT by. Heuce, what %ill benefit
us VIII benefit yop. Join with Us, and
lets pun t0gether4.. ID.